[MPlayer-users] mencoder failing to encode at desired bitrate/filesize

[Ed Sweetman]

RC wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2006 15:33:19 -0400
> Ed Sweetman <safemode at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> As you can see from the command line I gave in the email you responded
>> to, the first "file" is sent to /dev/null, since it's totally useless 
>> anyway.
>>     
>
> Mencoder will still tell you how many bytes of video/audio it output.
>   


Just re-ran the first pass just for the sake of argument.  It comes out 
to just about the exact same thing that the second pass does.